Concerto for violin and wind ensemble is a 25-minute virtuosic work for the violin and accompanying winds, brass, and percussion. As a trained violinist, among the first works I learned were the concerti of J.S. Bach. Thus, ...

This dissertation is a qualitative study that focuses on ten pre-service teachers as students in an undergraduate teacher preparation program at a 4-year university in Texas and follows four of them into the classroom as ...

With the increasing demand of fast-paced and hybrid manufacturing processes in modern industry, it is desirable to expedite the iterations between design and manufacturing through intelligent computational techniques. In ...

As process technology continues to scale down, there is an increased susceptibility to Single Event Upsets(SEUs) leading to soft errors. Various methods which implement Concurrent Error Detection(CED) have been proposed ...

Free radicals play a critical role in the formation of tropospheric air pollution, but current condensed chemical mechanisms used in gridded photochemical models under-predict total radical concentrations. This dissertation ...

This research project discusses the construction of human nature in the medical-scientific discourse of the second half of the nineteenth century in three different works from the Naturalism movement: O Homem (1887), by ...

Asian American adolescents, such as Chinese and Korean American adolescents, often language broker for their immigrant parents. This study examines how language brokering influences parent-child relationships and adolescents' ...

The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) recently passed a new rule that requires entities that receive federal funding from HUD to take steps to “affirmatively further” fair housing. HUD’s new rule ...

This report addresses building envelope conditions of the Main Building of the Austin State Hospital (ASH), formerly the Texas Lunatic Asylum. Designed in 1857 to be constructed in phases and follow the nationally recognized ...

A central goal of this study is to better understand why some mothers become unresolved with respect to experiences of loss whereas others do not. Adults are considered to be unresolved with respect to loss if they display ...

One common approach to managing the inevitable erroneous convictions and erroneous acquittals produced by criminal justice systems is to employ various means (rules and procedures) to decrease the number of erroneous ...

Conducting polymers that contain metals are remarkable materials, because they have the properties of both organic backbones and metals. Depending on the position of the metal relative to the conjugated backbone, i.e. ...

Conducting polymer hydrogels (CPHs) is a class of unique materials that synergize the advantages of conducting polymers (CPs) and polymer hydrogels together. It has been employed in many high-performance electrochemical ...

The majority of conjugated polymers are more stable as p-doped materials than n-doped materials. Stable n-doped polymers are still desirable and for all polymer OPVs, pLEDS, n-channel FETs, and other polymeric electronic ...

Human disease processes are often characterized by a deviation from the normal physiological concentration of critical biomarkers. The detection of disease biomarkers requires the development of novel sensing methods which ...